Our round-up of what the nation’s restaurant critics were writing about in the week to 3 March 2024 Evening Standard Camille, Borough Market Jimi Famurewa kicked off the Gallic theme that dominates the week’s reviews with his visit to “a supremely creative and confident new-wave bistro” from the team behind Soho’s Ducksoup, where he found an […]
A new neighbourhood bistro with a focus on natural wines is to open in Horsforth on the edge of Leeds next month. Bavette is the first joint venture from Yorkshire-born chef Sandy Jarvis and his husband, sommelier Clement Cousin (left & right in picture), who met 12 years ago working at London restaurant Terroirs. Sandy […]
A man has been charged with arson related to the fire that swept through the 14th-century Star Inn Harome in North Yorkshire almost two years ago. The 28-year-old man from nearby Helmsley will appear in Scarborough magistrates court on Monday. The fire swept through the old pub’s 4ft deep thatched roof in November 2021, leaving […]
Chef Josh Overington and his wife Victoria are to open a new restaurant with rooms in North Yorkshire this summer, less than a year after closing their highly rated Le Cochon Aveugle in York. Mýse (which rhymes with cheese) is scheduled to open in June in the village of Hovingham, almost 20 miles north of […]
High-flying chef Tommy Banks is to launch a new pub-restaurant with rooms this spring close to his North Yorkshire headquarters, the Black Swan in Oldstead. There is no word yet on the exact location and name of the venture, although it said to be a “historic” site and will adhere to the “hyper-local, sustainably focused […]
The Star Inn at Harome, chef Andrew Pern’s 14th-century gastropub in North Yorkshire, is to reopen next Saturday, 1 October, almost a year after it was gutted by a fire that ripped through its four feet of thatched roofing. Andrew vowed to restore the inn in the aftermath of the disaster (pictured), and contractors have […]
Two prominent independent restaurants have announced their permanent closure – Le Cochon Aveugle in York and House of Feasts in Peterborough – highlighting the struggles faced by the industry since lockdown was lifted. Le Cochon Aveugle (pictured above) was opened in 2014 and serves only a ‘blind’ tasting menu to just five tables. The current Harden’s 2022 […]
Opera North is to open a destination restaurant at its new headquarters in Leeds city centre this summer. Kino will accommodate up to 100 covers on three floors, with an evolving line-up of local pop-ups and guest chef residencies. The restaurant is in the Howard Opera Centre in New Briggate and Harrison Street, which opened […]
The Moorcock Inn in West Yorkshire, one of the highest-rated new-wave food pubs in the country, is to close down at its peak of popularity. Its many fans – and gastronomes who have yet to make the journey to the moors above Halifax – will be pleased to learn that it will remain open until January […]
Frances Atkins, one of the most prominent British chefs of the century and one of the first women in the UK to earn a Michelin star*, launches her new venture tomorrow – a café in a garden centre near Harrogate, less than 20 miles from the Yorke Arms, the old coaching inn on the Yorkshire […]